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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Moscow Holds Explosive Secret POW Document

Date: November 10, 1998

Evil Secrets

The Washington Times has broken a story that may have stunning consequences. They are reporting that a secret KGB document that discusses American POWs taken to the Soviet Union is presently in the hands of Moscow, who is refusing to turn it over to US authorities.

According to news reports, US Badministration officials have known of the document's existence for several months, even appealing to Russian PM Primakov. The Pentagon is said to have discovered the document's existence in January, however has yet to see it as the Russian side states it is "classified, and will not be released."

So much for US-Russian cooperation.

The document was described by former US-Russian Commission member, General Dmitri Volkogonov in papers which were donated to the Library of Congress upon his passing. Volkogonov was eulogized by Bob Smith on the Senate floor in 1992. Apparently Volkogonov, who was the recipient of large amounts of US kindness and medical care, kept his knowledge of the explosive document to himself. However, in what is purported to be his 'memoirs' and in alleged photocopies of book galleys, he makes reference to the document -

"I am not certain that we have fully clarified everything. I know that quite a few documents were destroyed. However, one document, probably sensational, is still in storage. I have a copy of it. It's content is as follows: at the end of the 1960s the KGB (external foreign intelligence) was given the task of "delivering informed Americans to the USSR for intelligence gathering purposes."When I found this sensational paper in a "special pouch," I immediately went to Y. M. Primakov (Director of foreign Intelligence). He called in his people. They brought in a copy of this project signed; it seems to me, by Semichastny (I will explain). For a long time, there was a search underway to find traces of this task. These, the traces, as I had expected "were not found." They said that the task had not been accomplished. So how did this happen in fact? The regime was such that one could speculate on the wildest of variants. This remained a secret, which I could not penetrate. I also did not report this to my much-esteemed Ambassador, M. Toon. I am speaking about this now in the hope that these notes will make it into my book Reflections.

History, especially Soviet history, is full of secrets, and very often evil. With the exception of this incident, I can say that I have done something in order to raise the mysterious curtain from them."

Evil secrets. Jan Sejna spoke of them. He is gone. Phil Corso spoke of them. He is gone. Dmitri Volkogonov didn't speak of them, but has written that he certainly knew of them. He is gone.

Perhaps the Powers-that-Be are simply waiting for all the witnesses to pass so that the evil secrets will die with them.